Monday 1 April 2019

Another Brexit vote

On Monday evening, another Brexit vote was held in the UK Parliament. There have been several votes on the issue of Brexit already. The Prime Minister May won 286 votes for her deal but failed to win the majority in the House on Friday; besides the PM's deal, other alternatives had been made available for the Parliament to vote on, no deal had been able to win a majority in the House. Even on Monday evening, no deal won a majority in the House. The UK is expected to leave the European Union on the 12th of April, so there are only 11 days left and the UK will avoid the European Parliamentary election.
On Monday, new customs union with the EU, common market 2.0, a second referendum and revocation of Article 50 were rejected by the House. The new customers union vote was the closest  and the revocation of Article 50 was defeated the most widely by 101 votes. This is so ironic that the House has shown it strongly opposes a no-deal Brexit by the previous vote on no-deal Brexit; however, no deal was favored by the majority. I previously believed that the UK wanted to stay in the single market because of the economic opportunities; however, the vote result shocks me and implies that the single market is not something that the UK politicians want. The vote results on Monday should destroy any optimism in any one's mind about Brexit; I personally now believe that a no-deal Brexit is the most likely future ahead us among all possibilities, because maybe the UK politicians want to negotiate a deal with the EU, but there may be no deal that can win the majority domestically in the UK itself, eventually no deal is the outcome that delivers the worst payoff but is the choice of the majority.

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